If you’re a high sec miner, mission runner or incursion pilot you may want to add known ganking corporations or alliances to your contacts with a negative standing. Adding Pilots to Your Contacts with Negative Standing Of course you should be spamming DScan so you’d see them there before they load on the overview (by then it’s usually too late). If you have a mining tab, make sure once you lock up the rock you go back to your general tab to see if any neutral ships or pilots with bad standings come on grid. You’ll first want to click on the Z-S core pack and then you can choose a layout below. If you go join the in game channel ‘Z-S Overview’ you can find the different overviews in the MOTD (message of the day). Z-S Overview is the Advised Beginner Overview What’s important here is being able to properly filter for your activity. You can see if a station is NPC or upwell (player structure), both rat and player ships, drones, planets, moons, the sun, gates, mining and more. The overview, also only accessible while undocked, conveys a lot of information. If you don’t want to keep moving your mouse to hit the Scan button, just hit V on your keyboard! Your Overview is Important 1 to 14 AU and between 5 and 360 degrees. Personally, I like putting it straight under my overview so it’s easily accessible and mostly out of the way. Now you can drag it to where ever you like it. Once the map pops up with the DScan docked, you’ll need to undock it.Īll you need to do is click the little square with the dot in it to separate DScan from the map. Undocking DScan from the Solar System Map So unless you want people to know you’re there, don’t type anything into local. Nobody shows up in local until they type in chat. Note: wormhole and pochven local operates differently than high, low and null. KEEP LOCAL CHAT UP! It can save your life! I know that new players usually click local chat away in order to try to free up space on their screen. Are they high sec suicide gankers? Do they regularly hunt in low sec? In the system you’re in? Are you flying a ship that they target often? All of this is intel you can glean from that one chat window. Additionally, you can enter their name into ZKillboard to see if they regularly pvp and what kind of pvper they are. This will allow you to see their corp and alliance. You can right click any pilot in the list and select info. From this list you can see if a pilot is suspect (flashy yellow skull), criminal (flashy red skull) or has a negative standing to you (set by you in your contacts or your corp/alliance). Number 2: The names of the pilots who are in the system with you. Local can spike from a fleet traveling through or they could be coming for you. When the number starts rapidly going down, local is de-spiking. When the number starts going up quickly, pilots will say that local is spiking. Number 1: this number shows how many people are in the system with you. However, I’d argue that the local chat window is one of THE most important tools in the game. There are actually a lot of tools that can be used to maintain situational awareness in Eve Online. If you blindly click away the warning without reading or comprehending where you’re going, you are the only person that can be blamed for getting blown up. While you should maintain a high situational awareness even in high sec (gankers are out there), you really should really pay attention when going into “more dangerous” space. As long as you haven’t checked the little box saying “do not ask me again” you’ll always have to press OK before going into low/null sec from high sec, a trig system, or worm hole. There’s a few pop up warnings in Eve Online. If you’re not paying attention to local, intel channels, or what system you’re playing in, the chances of being blown up increase significantly. Pilots who have a high situational awareness dock their ships more often after an op than those that don’t. Situational Awareness is defined as being AWARE of what is happening around you in terms of where you are, where you’re supposed to be, and whether anyone or anything around you is a threat to your health and safety.
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